Homemade instruments

You don't need to buy instruments to make music. These simple projects use everyday materials to build shakers, drums, and rhythm tools that children can make and play themselves.

Plastic Egg Shakers Paper Mache Fruit Shakers Jingle Sticks African Tambourine Noodle Sand Blocks Juice Can Shakers Jingle Bracelets Quilting Hoop Drum

How The Page Used Them

These instructions pair instrument-making with songs children can sing immediately afterward. The page specifically connects fruit shakers to songs like Apples and Bananas and also kept a few intentional NancyMusic references for related instrument ideas and song use.